Clever Corvids: unique beaks for tool use (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, March 18, 2016, 17:20 (3172 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: To say that crows are intelligent enough to use tools is not an anthropomorphization! How does any innovation catch on? Do you think your God preprogrammed every Caledonian crow to suddenly start using tools? Organisms can learn from other organisms, and in due course new behaviour may also lead to physical adaptations. Why did it appear? What you call the innate drive to complexity is what I call the drive for survival and improvement. -You haven't answered my point. How does one crow show the others so they all learn the tricks? Is it monkey see monkey do, which works because they live in troops? The crows on my ranch fly around by themselves, unless fighting, which they do regularly. In your evolution-dependent view we probably got to be warlike from them, since you think humans inherited all their emotions from lesser organisms.